One of the longest-lasting problems of Disney Imagineering is the Tomorrowland problem, the idea that the future eventually becomes the present, inevitably making any attraction in the land outdated over time.
In the 1990s Disney planned to try to fix this problem with a Jules Verne-like theme, making the land focused on the retro-future rather than the future. This was mainly planned for Disneyland Paris, but some parts of this theme were planned to come to Walt Disney World's Tomorrowland as well.
One of these main aspects was to be a retheme of the Plaza Pavilion, (the location now known as the Tomorrowland Terrace) into a more elaborate restaurant called the Astronomers Club.
This restaurant would have been a highly themed location tied in with the theme of neighboring attraction, the Timekeeper, also from Disneyland Paris.
The restaurant was planned for Disneyland Paris as well although budget cutbacks would cancel the location in both parks. Instead, Tomorrowland would get a cheaper retheme based on an intergalactic city instead of a retro retheme, and this restaurant would not fit the new theme that Tomorrowland actually got.
The location intended for this restaurant became a part of Tomorrowland, but as the lightly themed Tomorrowland Terrace, not a highly themed restaurant like this was supposed to be.
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